Sentence examples for barely qualified from inspiring English sources

At best, India has been a qualified political success and a barely qualified economic failure.Indian leaders believed in 1947 that colonial exploitation had kept the country poor, and that when the British went, so would poverty.

But Zatonskih played poorly in the preliminary rounds and barely qualified for the semifinals.

Though America's recession ended in mid-2009, what followed barely qualified as a recovery.

As only a second-time visitor, I barely qualified as a veteran.

Montgomery barely qualified for the 100 finals, running 10.23 in the semifinals.

Now, only a year out of practice, I barely qualified as a beginner.

That means that I'm barely qualified to plug in a WiFi router today.

With a salary close to the cap, he barely qualified for the $10,000.

It barely qualifies as an experience.

Even that barely qualifies as a strategy.

And it rarely does much good to barely qualify.